Former Painting and Decorating MA Callum Bonner has made it a hat-trick of motions about Forth Valley College raised in the Scottish Parliament over the last week.
Conservative MSP for Mid-Scotland and Fife, Alexander Stewart raised Callum’s “success at the Trades Olympics and asked that the Parliament commends the 21 year-old from Tullibody, on his success representing Team UK at the 2019 WorldSkills Finals, which were held in Kazan, Russia in August”.
BA Art and Design student Jade Scott and FVC’s MA recruitment success have also been the subject of motions in the Scottish Parliament recently.
Callum a painter and decorator with Clackmannanshire Council, who completed his Modern Apprenticeship through FVC, was one of the 15 Team UK competitors who won the coveted Medallions of Excellence which means they are of ‘World class standard’.
Team UK - the UK’s top young students and apprentices (and former apprentices including FVC’s Callum Bonner) – flew home from Russia covered in gold and glory recently.
The 37 women and men, the best in their nations, won a total of 19 medals - two gold, one silver and one bronze medal and 15 medallions of excellence (achieving world class standard) at the ‘Skills Olympics’ from August 22-27.
The impressive results represent an amazing success for WorldSkills UK, which selects and trains the team and works to mainstream excellence in education and industry. They were testament to the remarkable breadth and depth of skills that the UK offers the World.
Graeme Williamson, a Lecturer in the Painting and Decorating Department, said: “The Painting and Decorating Department and the whole college are extremely proud of Callum and his achievements. He has worked so hard over the last two years to get to Russia. We had plenty of late nights in the workshop doing extra practice, and he has been all over the world during his training. He is an inspiration to all that follow him.”